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This article is provided by Behind The Mixer. Critiquing your mix is one of the best ways improving your mix. You’ll improve the mix for the next week but you can also immediately improve your mix for the song you are critiquing. Today, I’m kicking out the questions you must ask, concerning your mix, as well as a new method I’ve been using. Top 11 Questions to Ask of Your Mix 1) Can I hear all the musicians and…
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Classical music recording and production company Soundmirror took the new Lectrosonics Digital Hybrid Wireless bodypack LT transmitters straight from the production line to the stage earlier this year to capture L.A. Opera’s West Coast premiere of The Ghosts of Versailles. Soundmirror utilized 13 of the new L Series Large Bandwidth transmitters in combination with 11 Lectrosonics SMQV transmitters and 4 six-channel Venue receivers for a total of 24 channels of wireless to record composer John Corigliano’s opera, which was being…
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At Denmark’s Roskilde Festival the new LEOPARD linear sound reinforcement system led a lineup of more than 200 Meyer Sound loudspeakers at four different stages. The smallest and most versatile member of the Meyer Sound LEO Family of loudspeakers, the patent-pending LEOPARD system was launched this spring. “LEOPARD was amazing—I could hear every instrument clearly and distinctly more than 50 meters from the stage,” says Lars Liliengren, production manager for Roskilde. “We strive for perfection here at Roskilde, because we…
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Hospital Records artist Matt Gresham (also known as Logistics) has bought a pair of PMC twotwo.6 nearfield monitors for his own studio. The new loudspeakers have been used for all of the mixing and mastering Gresham has done over the last few months in preparation for a new Logistics album. “I’ve been working mainly from home for a while now, apart from vinyl mastering which I still have done externally,” explains Gresham from his Cambridge studio. “The twotwos have been…
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Avid congratulates its many customers recognized as award nominees for the 67th Annual Emmy Awards for their outstanding achievements in the television industry. The ceremony for television excellence will honor numerous editors and audio mixers who have embraced Avid, using the Avid MediaCentral Platform and Avid Artist Suite creative tools for behind-the-scenes crafts in television production. The ceremony will take place on September 20, 2015 at the Microsoft Theater L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles, California. Avid editing professionals nominated for…
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Riedel Communications equipment provided the communications and signal management capabilities for the Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour Freestyle Motocross event at Madrid’s Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas. On July 10, as more than 23,000 fans looked on, top professional freestyle riders impressed the fans with their tricks. The Red Bull production team used Riedel’s Artist digital matrix intercom systems and MediorNet real-time signal distribution and management platform to produce and bring the live event to the world. The fiber-based…
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Recording engineer and producer Michael Bishop won his 10th GRAMMY in the category Best Engineered Album, Classical; a project recorded with ribbon microphones from Royer Labs. The award was issued to him at the 57th annual award show for his engineering, mixing, and mastering work on the ASO Media release Vaughan Williams: Dona nobis pacem, Symphony No. 4, The Lark Ascending, which features Robert Spano, Norman Mackenzie, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Shortly after on March 4th, he…
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Since 1996, LA’s Skirball Cultural Center is a Jewish cultural cultural venue and event space designed by architect Moshe Safdie. The new 44,000-square-foot Herscher Hall/Guerin Pavilion includes over 40 Tannoy loudspeakers to enhanced Skirball’s ability to serve the 600,000 some patrons who visit annually. Lauded by the New York Times as ‘a lesson on how to connect the eye to heart and mind,’ the Guerin Pavilion combines versatility and aesthetics, featuring an A/V system in which Tannoy’s Dual Concentric loudspeakers…
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The Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Center recently installed Allen & Heath’s GLD-112 to give their black-box theatre an audio upgrade. The installation in the Long Center took place in the Debra and Kevin Rollins Studio Theatre, an adaptable venue with seating configurations for up to 229 patrons. The Long Center itself has a variety of stages some of which can accommodate up to 2,442 guests. Production supervisor, Blake Addyson, said the Allen & Heath GLD-112 he installed was…
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A record crowd of more than 15,000 converged on Garner Park in Madison, WI last Saturday night for the 14th annual Opera in the Park, featuring performances by professional opera singers, the Madison Opera Chorus and the Madison Symphony Orchestra. Jonathan and Susan Lipp, Full Compass Systems CEO and chairman of the board, respectively, as well as Bag End owners Henry Heine and Jim Wischmeyer once again donated their time and equipment to help the event deliver quality sound reinforcement.…
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